Horse-detacher



(No Model.)

A. F. GODEPROY.

HORSE DETAGHER.

No. 325,334. Patent-ed Sept. 1, 1885.

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ALEXANDRE F. GODEFR-OY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HORSE=DETACHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,834, datedSeptember 1, 1885.

Application filed May .20, 1855. (N0 modeLl To all 2072,0771. it mayconcern.-

Be it known that I, ALnXAnnnE-F. Gone FROY, of St. Louis, Missouri, havemade anew and useful Improvement in Carriages, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement is a novel means for de taehing the thills from, andarresting the 11107 tion of, a carriage, as when, for instance, suchrelease and arrest may be made desirable by reason of an unmanageable orrunaway horse. The drawings hereto annexed, and made part of thisspecification, illustrate the improvement.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a carriage, the chill-irons being shownin section, and the parts being as when the thills are attached. Fig. 2is asimilar view, but showing the parts as when the thills are detached.Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are details upon a large scale, showing the thill-ironand the parts immediately therewith connected; and Fig. (3 is a view ofa portion of a thill-iron rod.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The carriage A may be constructed in the ordinary manner, saving as itis modified by the present improvement. B represents a lever, pivoted atb to a bracket, 0, which is at tached to the carriage front axle, D.

A rod, E, leads from the lower end of the lever to and connects with thebolt F, which is used to attach the thill-iron G to the axleclip H. Asimilar rod, E, leads from the up per end of the lever B to the bolt Fthat connects the thill-iron G" with the axle-clip H. Another rod, I,leads from the lower end of the lever B to the lower end of a lever, J,which, at j, is pivoted to a bracket or hearing, K, upon the axle D, andthence is extended upward, as at j, to be within reach of the occupantof the carriage, who can detach the thills by drawing the upper end ofthe lever J from the position shown in Fig. 1 into the position shown inFig. 2; for when the lever J is thus drawn the rods E E operate towithdraw the bolts F F from the thill-irons, and thereby release thethills from the axle-clips.

It being desirable that the movement of the carriage be checked wheneverthe thills are detached, the rods E E are extended, respectively, at eand c, and by means of the forked connections e" are united,respectively, with the collars P 1 These collars are adapted to heslipped laterally upon the wheelhubs L L, respectively, and so that whenthe rods E E are drawn to detach the thillsithey (the collars) shall bepressed against the collars or flanges Z Z, respectively, and which arefastened to the hubs L L, respectively. .Vhen thus pressed, the collarsP I? act by friction to check the rotation of the wheels M, and thusarrest the further movement of the carriagc.

here the collar P comes in contact with the flange Z the surfaces may beslightly corrugated, as shown.

The spring N, attached at one end to the axle and at the other end tothe lever J, operates to hold the parts so that the thills shall not heaccidentally detached. The rods E E should work through proper bearings,0, upon the axle.

The ihills may be adapted to be automatically coupled as follows: Therod E, at its end 6', may be beveled, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, and thethill iron G, beyond its eye 9, be provided with a beveled projection,g. The thill can then, by pressing its projection against the beveledend of the rod, and as indicated in Fig. 4, be made to move the rod Eendwise, so as to disengage it from the perforation If in the clip H,and sufficiently to admit the thilliron into the clip, whereupon thespring N acts to throw the rod E forward again and through the eye 9 ofthe thill-iron, as represented in Fig. 3.

This mode of coupling an eye or link is useful in other forms ofmechanisms. For instance, a car-coupling might be similarly operated.

The extension 2 of the rod E is, as indicated in Figs. 1, 6, madedetachable from the main portion of the rod. By withdrawing the pin 6the extension, together with the collar P and the wheel M, can beremoved.

1. The combination of the axle D, the lever B, the rods E E I, thecollars P P, and the hubs L L, having the fiangesl Z, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination of the axle D, the pivoted lever B, the rods E E I.the bolts F F, the thiltirons G G, the axle-clips H H, the collars l. P,and the hubs-L L, havingthe flanges Z 1 substantially as described.

ALEXANDRE F. GODEFROY.

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